Europe Joins Ban on U.S. Poultry Products

[Florida_Geek]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Bird-Flu.html

Europe Joins Ban on U.S. Poultry Products
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: February 24, 2004


Filed at 9:57 a.m. ET

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- The European Union and South Korea banned the import of all poultry products from the United States on Tuesday following the outbreak of a highly contagious strain of avian influenza in Texas.

Russia, the United States' largest poultry export market, blocked poultry imports only from Texas but said it was considering a U.S.-wide ban. The Philippines also was considering a ban.

..more at article...

[lazarus]

1. And there goes

The remaining economic engine of the rural southeast.

The South is officially up for grabs, folks, because unemployment in the rural south is about to hit 15-20%, even higher in some places.

[Beetwasher]

3. Yup

This is going to be devastating...I feel really bad for those people...Shit, this really sucks...

[Beetwasher]

2. Uh Oh

This is very, very bad for the economy...

[SpiralHawk]

4. This food thing has the potential to be

destabilizing.

Food - Homeland Security of the most basic kind
I'm talking Community Supported Agriculture (CSA).

It works. Been around since the late 1980s -- may be time to ramp it up in the city or town where you live.

In the face of Big Agro and the Mutant "food products" it is foisting on you and your family (sans labels to give you any clue about what you are eating) many people are moving toward CSA. Mad Cow and Avian flu chickens are ramping up the motivation.

Terrorist threats is a whole new, unsettling idea. Nonetheless, CSA is a viable response.

It's a big change, but it ensures clean, healthy food -- and supports a local enviro oasis, and gives local people good honest hard-working jobs on the land. Local economy:

Read all about it:
From Rodale's TheNewFarm.org

Part I
Community Farms in the 21st Century:
Poised for Another Wave of Growth?
http://www.thenewfarm.org/features/0104/csa-history/part1.shtml

Part II
CSA's World of Possibilities
http://www.thenewfarm.org/features/0204/csa2/part2.shtml